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Chicago '68 / David Farber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farber, David, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Riots--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Riots.
- Political conventions--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Political conventions.
- Radicalism--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Radicalism.
- United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.
- United States.
- Chicago (Ill.)--History--1875-.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 p.)
- Other Title:
- Chicago sixty-eight
- Chicago sixty-eight.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Entertaining and scrupulously researched, Chicago '68 reconstructs the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago-an epochal moment in American cultural and political history. By drawing on a wide range of sources, Farber tells and retells the story of the protests in three different voices, from the perspectives of the major protagonists-the Yippies, the National Mobilization to End the War, and Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police. He brilliantly recreates all the excitement and drama, the violently charged action and language of this period of crisis, giving life to the whole set of cultural experiences we call "the sixties." "Chicago '68 was a watershed summer. Chicago '68 is a watershed book. Farber succeeds in presenting a sensitive, fairminded composite portrait that is at once a model of fine narrative history and an example of how one can walk the intellectual tightrope between 'reporting one's findings' and offering judgements about them."-Peter I. Rose, Contemporary Sociology
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- 1. Making Yippie!
- 2. The Politics of Laughter
- 3. Gandhi and Guerrilla
- 4. Mobilizing in Molasses
- 5. The Mayor and the Meaning of Clout
- 6. The City of Broad Shoulders
- 7. The Streets Belong to the People
- 8 Inside Yippie!
- 9 Thinking about the Mobe and Chicago '68
- 10 Public Feelings
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-296) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612538360
- 9781282538368
- 1282538365
- 9780226237992
- 0226237990
- OCLC:
- 644605729
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